Improving Your Postprocessing by Watching Videos of Other Photographers Workflow

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Recently I have started to look at my older pictures and reprocess them.  The reason for this, as I been progressing in my use of Lightroom and Photoshop, plus the plug-ins from NIK and Topaz, along with a few others, I have learned how to process my photos better.  NIK and Topaz have had a great number of educational webinars on how to use their products, plus there are a number of videos from different photographers on their workflow and utilization of Lightroom and Photoshop.  By watching these presentations I have learned a number of different ways a post-processing and it is help me to develop my own workflow.  You cannot remain static, you must continue to learn and think and develop your own style.

I will show you some pictures, the original be version 1 and the reprocessed version 2.  Some of the facts may be subtle, but on my computer screen, there is enough of a difference to see the change.

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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Site -The Woods

On my trip to Vermont.  I visited the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Site in Vermont.  This site is dedicated to stewardship and the preservation of the natural world.  A full blog about the visit will be forthcoming.
As I was reviewing my photographs from the visit, I was intrigued by one photograph  taken in the woods, showing the road and the woods surrounding it.  However, it was a bland photograph.
I decided to use NIK HDR Pro 2 and process the single photograph as a tone map.  I just purchased The Photographer's Guide to HDR Efex Pro 2.0.  By Jason Odell of Luminescence of Nature Photography.  Part of the package was a number of presets by Jason Odell.  I utilized a black and white grunge preset and just added a touch of saturation, which gave a very light green tint to the vegetation.









The e-book is on sale with a discount until September 2 and can be found at http://www.luminescentphoto.com/blog/2012/08/25/the-complete-guide-to-nik-software-hdr-efex-pro-2-0/
This is an excellent book for helping you get the most out of NIK HDR Efex Pro 2.